The death of a former vice president qualifies for lowering the flag as a part of the U.S. Flag Code, the Half Staff organization reported. "According to this section, the flag is to be flown at half-staff from the day of death until interment," a post made on HalfStaff.org this week stated .

Cheney may not have foreseen how Trump would use the powers of the presidency that Cheney had helped reclaim. “Dick Cheney was a proponent of a powerful presidency. Unfortunately, he lived to see the dark side of that policy when someone uses the office for personal rather than national interests,” Naftali says.